Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] four [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mind was fixed on the tribunal most of the day , then I spent four hours travelling up for what I thought would be a place on the bench . |
| 2 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 3 | Well I know I went four years running |
| 4 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 5 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
| 6 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 7 | ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going . |
| 8 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 9 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 10 | Dear Uncle Mike and Auntie Sue … they had four children to think about , but had still made the effort to choose a book Rebecca would really enjoy . |
| 11 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 12 | He admitted four offences involving £2,600 of goods , with 29 taken into consideration , of deception dating from July 1988 to March 1993 . |
| 13 | He identified four factors to explain the variation in employee protection : |
| 14 | He directed four formateurs to submit names for the federal Cabinet and chose Hatta as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister . |
| 15 | This week he spent four days working on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 16 | Between the announcement on 26 August of a government ban on L'Humanite and Ce Soir , and the annoucement of his own resignation on 25 September , he spent four weeks wrestling with his conscience and attempting to understand the full implications of what had happened . |
| 17 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |
| 18 | He looked up , frowning , and started almost out of his skin as he saw four heads gawping in . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 20 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 21 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 22 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 23 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 24 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 25 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 26 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 27 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 28 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 29 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 30 | It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs . |